The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

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COMMENT AND OPINION.
GOVERNOR FoRAKER's majority will be 80. 600.
Snubs telL.-Chicago Journal.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is cordial and
enthusiastic hater of newspapers and newspaper
men, He is eooc deal of Cleveland man.
-Philadeiph Press.
Mr.. CLEVELAND may not be IAN orator as
Brutus was. but all the same he is delivering
the greatest series of funeral orations in recent
politics. -Philadelphia Press.
If Mr.. Blaine com bines in a greater degree
than any other Republican the qualities of fit
ness and availability he should be renominated;
not otherwise. -Milwaukee Sentinel.
THE right of free speech is sacred, but per-
uniting a lunatic like George Francis Train to
make incendiary speeches to LOT Of madmen is
stretching it pretty far-Philadephia Inquirer.
Or cent is very small, but when it is added
to ate of interest you receive on a stock it
pos stern. magnificent grandeur that
carr .vou away like q strain of music.-Dry
Goods Chronicle
THE New York Times and other Cleveland or
eans are scolding about the German ring in
Maryland. II is a combination affair and
should be called the Cleveland German ring.
Boston Journal.
HERE 10 something want our free trade
manufactured articles used by farmers are
cheaper in the United States than in England.
Atlanta Con sti tuition.
THE Democratic party is doing much to prove
that u has no moro tho capacity to discipline it.
self than it has to command the confidence Of
the people 1t is working to destroy its chances
for future success with foolishness that would
be beyond belief were not the evidence ofsit so
constantly before our ayes.-Boston Herald.
THE Democrats in Georgia want the revenue
laws wiped out They want the tariff then
modified that there will be surplus. and every
dollar that Is levied for revenue they want levied
an la tn nrnt mi hnr wi rom.
petes with the serf labor of Europe. This il
Democratic: doctrine. and can be understood by
a wayfaring man though he be a fooL-Atanta
Constitution.
CITIZENSHIP is a duty as well as a privilege.
II political rings exist. the men who constitute
the party are to blame If the best mon not
any part in the primary assemblies of the
party-the dirty work." kid -gloved
fault finders call it-deserve the public censure.
1t is too late lock the stable after she horse il
Standardization News and Courier.
THERE is this 20 be said in extenuation of the
Presidents conveyance that he distracted his
facts from the American Cyclopedia." 1t was
not from chambers" nor from the "Encyclo-
pedia Britannica" and he withstood the temptA-
ton Of purloininR from any other nation. Rus
sian, Frerch. Turk. Prussian, perhaps
Italian. And it is greatly to his credit that he
remains American even when getting the Data
of speech on Terre Haute.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
IRELAND is one Of the most besutiful coun-
tries In the world. It's climate is good, its soil
is rich Irishmen get along and do well every
where except in their own country. Englishmen
may, therefore. proitabv ponder the declara-
ton OF Froude: ''1f we will neither rule Ire
land nor allow Irishmen to rue themselves,
nature and fact may tell us that. whether We
will or no, an experiment which has lasted for
seven hundred years shall be tried longer
New York Herald.
WE do not want the English tenant system
introduced here, and, with millions Of acres Of
unoccupied lands in the West. there is reason
rhryr tUhn ,rIa xvsct IN, ofndN nvSN
farms should be titled by the men who own
them. Absentee landlords will be tolerated,
perhaps. in England for hundred years more,
but not In this country under any clrcnm-
stances. Least of all do we care to see the GUS
tom of Wholesale and brutal evictions prevalent
in our midst.-New York Star
CONVENTIONS meet and indorse the President
and approve his policy, while all the time those
concerned in them doing thines that prove
their hypocrisy. Senator German has his will
in MARYLAND: Indiana 10 a scandalizing example
of the survival Of the spoils system; Kentucky
proclaims that she is yet joined to ancient Bour-
bon idols; Massachusetts holds convention
SCOTS at that reform in which alone resides the
possibility Of the Democrats retaining power
Boston Herald
THERE seems to be a dearth Of talent among
pared to the other professions. AS GLASS; they
are vastly inferior to what they were twenty.
Eve years ago. Whether this is because religion
has lost its hold on the young men is question
that the professors of these semnaries should
answer AS matter Of fact. quarter OF a
century ago q large proportion of the most able
college graduates took mp the ministry. whereas
now it is an exception to find students OF the
first rank in administrative York Star.
UNTIL the human mind be taught to think
less tendery of departed friends. and to feel
less acutely the revolving impressions which the
idea Of thrussing loved ones remains into
fiery furnace for speedy dissolution invariably
produces. the advocates o. cremation will have
but a feeble following 1t is a in which
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cessfuly defes the demonstrated facts of science;
and from present indications the sentiment.
founded as it is on the hottest feelings OF human
nature, will continue to triumph.-New York
Times.
CLEVELAND has thought that Governor Hill was
the only man in New York he had to fear. but
he has been misled. 1t is not that man, but
another man. who is slowly emerging from the
bushes. We intend to mention in day or two
the name of this man. He will be the product
of the great forces that underlie and overcome
the Democratic party. He is representative
He will get away with Grover In New
York, but we think the Republicans can beat
him. or course the solid South may be counted
upon for anybody called Democrat When
we name the man there will be no mystery.
Gin cinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE carrying trade of the ocean is q matter Of
dollars and cents If it does not pav-and Brit
ish ship owners best know whether shares in
freight vessels prof sable-the Yankee can
will anv American deny that we are behind the
Old World in great many things. young
nation not be expected to attain everything
in a single century, even with matches advau-
tages. But the wise institutions and wise laws
which bring us the pick of foreign craftsmen
and 10 ventors will continue to defend American
industries and American development until in
other things, as in the building Of fast yachts.
we rely hopefully upon the ability Of our
communicative York Tribune.
THE Presidents tour may be honestly intended
TO have political significance or effect, but
Democrats are everywhere eviden tly resolved to
make the best possibl use of ii. At Indianapolis
only one Observation-Disclosures Porter-was
originally on tho committee designated TO re-
ceive the party ut tho train. Senator Harrison
was added only after considerable fuss had been
made about II by the citizeps. and Judge Woods,
in whose court "Sin" Coy was indicted for bal
lot box frauds. wholly ignored In ST.
Louis the Democratic clubs have monopolizsd